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  1.  @sickstreaming  What in God's name are you wittering on about? "footed the Bill"? You seem to be totally unaware that the UK paid back what she owed to the US making the final payment as recently as 2006. In 1941 you were nothing but a bunch of profiteering cowards too shit scared to mix it when others were fighting militarism. Rest assured Bismarck's "shit was rocked" by the UK with NO help from Americans, save what we BOUGHT from you. Get back in your box and keep quiet redneck.
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  2.  @alexlupsor5484  Because its a nonsense question. Why would you imagine that sufficient heat to melt through multiple armoured decks would be generated by a fire in open air? Even if you used a thermite well it would be hard pressed to melt through multiple layers of armour. The gout of flame in front of Hood's main mast that was witnessed shortly before the deflagration was the energy from the magazines venting via the path of least resistance, that being the comprimised bulkheads between the main 15in magazine the 4" HA magazine and the aft engineroom bulkhead then from there venting upwards through the machinery space ventilation trunking which emerged just forward of Hood's main mast.
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  3.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Dalrymple-Hamilton's strength of character to be sailing his mighty ship in completely the opposite direction to everyone else when his navigation officer gave him the correct course while the rest of the home fleet sailed on the wrong heading based on incorrect DF'ing bearings always impressed me.
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  4.  @dovetonsturdee7033  I was aware of US officers being onboard, but not of his convening of a "war council", but that still reinforces my impression of Capt Dalrymple-Hamilton. A highly regarded RN captain of a high profile capital ship in a desperate situation being cool headed & not too haughty to be able to convene a "council of juniors" and take account of their advice, while he alone, as a captain usually does carried, the sole responsibility. My perception of Lancelot Holland is not quite so favourable.... I realise he and Hood were on the receiving end of extremely bad luck, but in all my reading of the accounts of the Bismarck saga, I've formed a vague impression that he was more autocratic, with possibly a hint of arrogance? Maybe I'm wrong, I know you'll have much more information to fill out my understanding of the man. I'd be more than happy to hear your own appraisal of Holland, Doveton.
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  5. The 1960 movie "Sink the Bismarck". Here it is in HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPAPHW_EkA&list=PLWTUoEsRSnZUIjwdyIPbCM3HuG22gNeK5& ENJOY !!!
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  6.  @martinschnelle3077  YOU made an assertion two posts above that in short said "German armour was astounding" and I've given you ALL the info you could ever wish for from a world renowned expert to show that it was not particularly better or worse than the allies' naval armour, but You STILL want to argue that you're right? It's not me with a problem. I have shown your assertion to be false, it appears its YOUR problem of accepting it. P.S I've just spotted some extra points you made above that did not show up on my PC earlier... YT comments are now being ruined by its ridiculous "AI" algorithm that makes comments appear and disappear seemingly at random. But here goes. 1. A torpedo would never be expected to penetrate a 320mm armour belt!!! Its a HE weapon and NOT a kinetic penetrator. I would have thought that to be patently obvious. 2. But the two superior RN battleships DID sink the Bismarck. The fact that the crew MAY have accelerated the sinking that had already been initiated by the RN is irrelevant. 3. Correct that HMS PoW was crippled by a single Japanese torpedo that DIDN'T impact her armoured belt at all. If you knew the train of events that caused that crippling you would see that the same fate as befell PoW would befall ANY ship hit in the same manner. Though what that has to do with your original incorrect assertion is beyond me, it appears that you're simply trying to deflect the argument away from your original fallacy.
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  7. HMS Tartar.
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  8.  @geoffreyhui830  No problem Geoffrey. I try to keep information accurate, but not many are as well mannered as yourself. All the best.
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  9.  @richardbushey2666  Hello Richard, Let me correct you. Hood fired 40-44 x 15in shells for 0 hits (0% hit rate). PoW fired 55 x 14in shells and scored 3 hits on Bismarck (5.45% hit rate). Bismarck fired 93 x 38cm shells for a total of 6 hits on Hood/PoW (6.5% hit rate). Prinz Eugen fired 158 x 20.3cm shells for 5/6 hits on Hood/PoW (3.8% hit rate). After the engagement closed, R/Adm Wake-Walker on Norfolk asked PoW for a status report, and PoW responded that Y turret traverse was jammed and only 3 out of her forward 6 14in guns were operational. Overall PoW's firing output was reduced by a total of 26% due to gunnery malfunctions. These are all recorded facts, please don't bother to try to dismiss them, you'll only highlight your own delusions if you do. P.S Despite being manned by a rookie crew, with a malfunctioning main arsenal, PoW had successfully, singlehandedly brought "Rhine exercise" to a premature conclusion. Job done !!! PPS Bismarck = updated Bayern.
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  10.  @richardbushey2666  What has the length of time got to do with it? So the Brits had "the drop" on the Germans did they? That'll be why they landed the first hit in the engagement then. A much more decisive factor is the fact that due to the dynamic operational situation prior to the engagement, Instead of Holland "crossing Bismarck's T" as he had hoped for, the German's had unintentionally "crossed Holland's T", and the gunnery numbers reflect that. Broadsides Vs half salvoes, increased density of fire from their 8 gun broadsides.... and in the course of events an incredibly lucky shot removed one of the main players from the equation. All this nonsense regarding "superior German gunnery" is mostly bullshit. A well trained Bismarck crew (who had been training aboard her since April 1940, including 3 months of sea trials during Sept-Dec 1940), was up against a brand new, untested ship with a mostly completely "green" crew, and yet Bismarck barely managed to outscore her if the hit rates are compared.... a country mile away from "outclassing" the Brits.
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  11. Fantasic Drach!!! I've long awaited for you to cover this bloody hero. Now setteling down to enjoy this. Thanks
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  12. There's a WHOLE deeper chapter regarding the sinking of the 3 gallant ships. Search for "operation Paul".
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  13.  @dovetonsturdee7033  I had a muzzy head after reading just a third of the crazed nonsense he'd posted. I do hope you didn't continue to actually reason with the loony.... even a free meal is no compensation for having to read so much of his nonsense.
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  14. I couldn't care less what some internet website or "Mythbusters" say... A very large vessel sinking quickly is not somewhere I would like to be in the vicinity of. In Hood's case a void in the ocean's surface big enough to contain a volume of water weighing 47000 tons was suddenly inundated in a matter of 3 minutes.... to help you visualise that imagine a glass box measuring 36m x 36m x 36m (the size of a cube shaped 10 storey building) and then imagine that box completely filling with water in 3 minutes. Like it or not... you're gonna be sucked down, probably longer and deeper than the average human's lungs can withstand.
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  15.  @PhilipLeitch  Wouldn't it be logical Philip that those Titanic passengers who survived to give evidence were obivously not subject to localised down currents, what about the +1500 dead Titanic passengers? While obviously a large number of them died due to hypothermia, who knows how many died due to other causes? Why did you ignore Ted Briggs' account of his leaving the wreck of the Hood? Actually spoken by him? How do you explain that? Was the man a liar? Look, Philip, the crux of the matter is you're making a unsubstantiated blanket statement that it can NEVER happen, as in you have utterly no conclusive evidence. I am saying that while it will not happen in every situation, there are enough first hand accounts of the phenomena to show that it might very well happen. I'll happily take the word of people who've demonstrably experienced the phenomena over self appointed "online experts", with no scientific background, but only too eager to jump on any "bandwagon meme" that they come across while surfing. You don't believe the world is flat as well do you? We both know I'm right, be a man and say, "yes, your point is correct".
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  16.  @PhilipLeitch  Problem is you have NO evidence at all to support your blanket assertion. Bullshit phrases like "Hydrodynamic modelling demonstrates this isn't a phenomenon" is just that, bullshit, its not demonstrated ANYTHING of the kind. On top of which you're now boring me to death with your pseudo-scientific verbiage. Its really not that impressive, well maybe to yourself, please feel free to continue to type away. You're wrong, I know it, you know it. The end.
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  17.  @PhilipLeitch  Oh just spotted you next post as I signed off.... the "I have a 2 honours & a masters degree". Absolutely laughable, does that mean that you're like REALLY brainy? Dear oh dear, you really DO believe your own bullshit don't you?
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  18. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The Nelson class were purposeful, mean looking bruisers... just as a battleship should be... no nonsense, just does what it says on the 9x 16in guns.
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  19.  @TTTT-oc4eb  Compare 1000 5-700 ton uboats to the countless thousands of naval craft built by the far greater shipbuilding capacity of the UK, ranging from battleships and aircraft carriers to cruisers, destroyers, motor torpedo boats, minesweepers, landing craft in their 1000s, and even Mulberry harbours. UK ship production SWAMPED that of the third reich far more than German tank production dwarved that of the British. I agree with you saying nazi slave labour really came into its own from 44 onwards, which is why I said the German army would have collapsed in 43-44 had it not been for Speer and his slave labourers replacing the ruinous losses from the eastern front from 42 to 45. My 50 odd years of military reading has left me reeling from the number of photographs of virtually intact panthers / tigers / king tigers etc abandoned by roadsides and bogged down in mud etc. It stands to reason a highly machined and over complicated feat of engineering is not designed to face the rigours of front line service, at the end of supply lines that were blasted by overwhelming aerial firepower. German engineering would produce 1000 exquisitely built war machines, when the same expenditure of allied effort could produce 10000 machines that could "do the job".
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  20.  @TTTT-oc4eb  Exactly. Germany was the premier land army in Europe, and it was useless against the world's no1 navy. Hence why the UK devoted FAR more resources to its navy than it did its army.
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  21.  @CapnBlackJackHonour  https://youtu.be/t3Nh6ro2eGE
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  22. Careful Bjorn, you may be swept away in the tidal wave of juvenile nazi fanbois tears if you say that !!!!
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  23. "Dazzle" and other similar styles of naval camoflage were not intended to "hide" the ship from sight. It was recognised in the first world war that in poor visibility no camoflage was necessary and in good visibility it was impossible to hide a ship. The purpose of those camoflage patterns was actually to make it very difficult for a distant ship or submarine to determine in which direction your ship was sailing, which was a necessary factor in the aiming of long range gunnery and torpedoes.
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  24. Her mission was to commerce raid which could have seen her probing as far south as the south Atlantic as at the time the German "at sea" refuelling nework of oilers had not been devastated yet (thought that was to happen very soon afterwards). No-one can know what exactly was on the mind of Gunther Lütjens prior to Bismarck's damage received at Denmark Strait. Mullenheim-Rechberg speculates that Lütjens had been unnerved by the advances in British radar technology which was already causing him problems as Norfolk had just recently been fitted with the RN's latest radar equipment, and that he was also gravely concerned that the nazis own "B-dienst" sig-int service had given him utterly no warning of the Hood/ PoW's approach. My feelings are that Lütjens was between a rock and a hard place. on one hand he knew that Hitler had certain expectations of Bismarck's performance, and that Raeder was wanting to highlight the usefulness of the Kriegsmarine prior to Barbarossa, but I also believe that he knew that with the advent of radar / longer ranged aircraft / greater allied naval power, that the days of hit and run tactics, followed by sloping off to some quiet corner of the ocean for a few days were rapidly coming to an end.
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  25.  @stephenjones6500  The blowlamp like flame was the overpressure of the Hood's deflagrating magazines venting to open air via the machinery spaces ventilation trunking, which was positioned between the mainmast and her second funnel.
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  26.  @DiePinky  Hey look at the twisted little incel anime troll !!! Get off your phone kid and go speak to someone of the opposite sex face to face, y'never know, you may find out you can actually be something else other than an odious little pr!ck if you try !!!
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  27. My first line of defence is to tell any unknown caller on the phone to "fuck off". Totally lacking in finesse, but effective.
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  28. I encounter the same problem when doing "online family history" research. When someone enters incorrect data regarding a person, that error gets spawns many replicaions by other people until you get to the point that the error effectively becomes accepted as "fact" from being so widely repeated.
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  29. Contrary to the widely received wisdom that an inept "maverick" captain wantonly threw his command and 2 escorts away for little reason, there is a very curious parallel story to the sinking of Glorious and her escorts, that could potentially be connected to the sinking of the 3 RN ships. Search for HMS Glorious and "operation Paul". The HMS Glorious website (YT doesn't let me post links) is written by the grandson of the Captain of HMS Ardent who was killed when she was sunk gallantly attacking the 2 German battleships during this tragic episode.
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  30.  @Gravitatis  Do you not know that the concept of "fate" also not being a phyiscal object cannot actually "twist".... It just seems that people like using what the educated know as "metaphors".
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  31. @ Your own lack of self awareness must speak VOLUMES for your own nationality. Where do you hail from? Boneheadonia?
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  32. Prinz Eugen, which fired HE shells throughout the engagement, had NO potential to destroy Hood, though she did start a fire on Hood's boat deck. "Beating the hell out of PoW".... you mean a total of SEVEN hits on PoW, NONE of which did serious damage.... so much so that after PoW had withdrawn due to the ongoing problems with her main armaments, she was, within 25 minutes of withdrawing from the engagement, once again shadowing Bismarck at full speed, and engaged in a further TWO exchanges of fire with Bismarck before being forced to make for Iceland due to shortage of fuel. "Hood was never going to survive"? Hood top speed = 32 knots (although in 1941 probably nearer to 30 knots) Bismarck top speed = 30 knots Hood main armament = 8 x 15in Bismarck main armament = 8 x 15in Bismarck belt armour = 12.6 inches Hood belt armour = 12 inches (Though angled so as to give 13 inches of protection). Bismarck armoured deck = 3.75 inches Hood armoured deck = 3 inches There was every expectation that Hood would "give as good as she took" prior to the engagement. Hood's vertical armour was well upto the average standard of contemporary battleships, her weakest aspect was her horizontal deck armour, but Holland had raced to close on Bismarck and had escaped the "danger zone" of plunging fire, only to be then hit by a million to one shot that found an obscure "Achilles heel" in her vertical armour.
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  33. My father in line with all other stokers in the RN (and in all other navies) during WW2 while serving onboard oil burning ships regularly had to climb inside an offline boiler to scrub carbon/soot buildup from within the heat transfer tubes with wire brushes.... a bloody awful dirty job at the best of times. Then when you realise that the adjoining boiler would still be online powering the ship meant that the temperature inside the offline boiler would still often reach 110ºF-120ºF... then add to that that he spent 2 years of the war onboard ships in the heat of the Indian ocean tropics and it makes you understand why the RN stationed Royal Marines onboard every ship to "keep order"... especially amongst stokers. The stokers were given an increased water allowance onboard whilst in the tropics for this reason.
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  34. Is that really you James? You'd normally be accusing RN officers of all manner of evil and deceitfulness. But in this case very well said.
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  35.  @fredmaxwell9619  True, but neither of which were out of action for more than a couple of minutes.
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  36.  @fredmaxwell9619  MY bad, I was commenting that PoW's fire control was not disabled during the Denmark Strait engagement. The HADT (High Angle Director Tower) that was hit WAS put out of action, but this was not the main gunnery fire control, but one of multiple directors for the AA role of PoW's 5.25in turrets.
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  37. "easy to steal"... nonsense. The Prewar Polish decipering efforts which came to fruition in 1937-38 were largely derailed when the Germans introduced a further 2 differently wired rotors to the system. It took a GREAT amount of effort to CAPTURE a complete set of rotors from the German forces.
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  38. At the time of her sinking Adalbert Schneider held the Kriegsmarine rank of Korvettenkapitän (three medium sleeve "piston rings" with crossed cannons (Artillerie division) above), though after his death he was posthumously promoted to Fregattenkapitän (2 medium / 1 thin / 1 medium piston rings with once again, crossed cannons above).
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  39. Try using the internet to find such footage....oh you're there already !!!
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  40. Or, more importantly a national memorial for its crew, and those of HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent.
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  41. Bismarck had two "flakvierlings" situated on her forward bridge superstructure. The problem was due to the surrounding coaming/bulkhead/handrails surrounding the mounts 80 or so feet up on the bridge superstructure, the double quad 20mm could not direct their fire downwards towards the approaching low flying torpedo bombers. The German naval achitects obviosuly never read page 1 of the "Naval AA defence" handbook.
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  42. It always annoys me that religion always seems to preach self interest, as in "be nice and you'll get everlasting life / 1000 virgins / whatever" afterwards. What about those of us who are agnostics and even atheists who while not believing in "afterlife" "reincarnation" or whatever "rewards" are promised, just treat people decently because its how we are. Religion seems to believe that goodness and decency is inextricably linked to religious observance, and conversely any "non-believers" are inherently wicked and evil. WE'RE the true selfless types, NOT the religious nuts who act decently for some future self-interest. Anyhow lets get back to HMS Hood.
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  43. I think the problem remains yours.
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  44. WW1 ending before Hood could take part was the "waste of money" but no-one was complaining. She then spent the naxt 20 years portraying the image of the largest most capable warship on the planet, shoring up the British Empire even as its sun was already setting.
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  45. As part of his (and all stokers) duties while serving onboard an oil fired boiler powered RN ship during WW2, my father used to crawl inside a boiler not just to make repairs, but also to carry out standard maintenance, with a long handled copper wire brush to clean the soot from out of the boiler's heat transfer tubes. My father and his fellow stokers often did this in an "offline" boiler while the adjoining boilers were running at full pelt... and they also had to carry out this duty whilst the ship was steaming in the tropics as well. The temperature inside often reached 50°c to 60°c. The men would do this arduous duty naked, and were also provided with an extra fresh water & salt ration for doing so, which onboard a ship in the tropics was a rare luxury indeed. They're not known as "the greatest generation" for nothing.
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  46. The major advantage of support groups was that they were NOT tied to a convoy, but supplemented the convoy's existing escort. Meaning that it could stop to prosecute a submarine contact to its conclusion without leaving the convoy without cover.
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  47. In what way was it "unequal" exactly?
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  48. No miracle involved in Germany's recovery. Just BILLIONS of dollars of US investment and stabilisation to rebuild the bulwark to stop the further westward advancement of the soviets post WW2.
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  49.  @adamcarriere4465  It is reported in the book "battleship Bismarck: An Operational History" that Prinz Eugen's hydrophone operators had TWICE reported torpedo alerts in the hours before the Denmark Strait engagement. There is also the fact that at NO POINT did HMS Hood (the only one of the two British capital ships at Denmark Strait to carry torpedoes) come anywhere near within range of using her Mk4 Steam torpedoes even at their lowest speed setting. It is quite simple to demonstrate with maths and geometry (a very basic "target Motion analysis") that this is the case.
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  50. Comedy gold !!!!
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